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Lacuna
//ləˈk(j)uː.nə// noun
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Noun
- 1 A small opening; a small pit or depression, especially in bone.
- 2 a blank gap or missing part wordnet
- 3 A small opening; a small pit or depression, especially in bone.; A space visible between cells, allowing free passage of light.
- 4 A small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.
""Our young friend makes up for many obvious mental lacunæ by some measure of primitive common sense," remarked Challenger."
- 5 A small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.; An absent part, especially in a book or other piece of writing, often referring to an ancient manuscript or similar.
"Long lacunae in this inscription make interpretation difficult."
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- 6 A small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.; Any gap, break, hole, or lack in a set of things; something missing. figuratively
"For Beatrice Nutter, there will always be conspicuous lacunae in our mutual understanding, but after almost 30 years here, the anomalies now delight rather than confound her."
- 7 A small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.; A language gap, which occurs when there is no direct translation in the target language for a lexical term found in the source language.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin lacūna (“a ditch, pit; a hollow, cavity; a gap, defect”). Doublet of lacune and lagoon.
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